What are some of the best heavy music publications/blogs for album reviews?

[Danny G]

I'm out of the loop, so looking for y'all's recommendations on heavy music publications and blogs to submit albums for review.

Muchas garcias!



Have already sent to Ripple Effect/Ripple Music

[giantchris]

http://www.doommantia.com/
http://thesludgelord.blogspot.com/
http://heavymetal.about.com/
http://www.hellridemusic.com/index.php
http://www.thesleepingshaman.com/
http://thesoggybogofdoom.podomatic.com/

Some random ones.

[Bro. Righteous]

I usually go to these cats for new updates...good luck G!

http://www.heavyplanet.net/p/album-reviews.html

[Danny G]

Awesome! Much appreciated!


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[moose23]

I'll just jump and say thanks too, need a list like this.

[giantchris]

Heres some more although the first ones I posted are more specific to the style of music we all do. 

http://www.sludged.com/
http://www.metal-observer.com/3.o/
http://blackwindmetal.com/
http://www.metal-archives.com/
http://www.themetalexperience.com/#!/page_SPLASH


You also might have some random local stuff whereever you live here in Chicago I can think of two offhand.
http://rockinchicago.org/
http://www.chicagodoomconfederacy.com/  <--this one is pretty small the guy is kinda just starting it

I also find it hilarious that nobody mentioned http://theobelisk.net/obelisk/ yet. 

[giantchris]

I also forgot to mention theres a very long Stoner/Doom Bassists thread on talkbass in the bassists subform you can probably post in to get some listens.  The Bongripper/Monobrow bassists post in it a lot too which is pretty cool.  But yeah making a long list of review sites and podcasts isn't a bad idea I am almost done recording my solo effort and want to submit it everywhere when its done as I am sure most of us in this forum want to as well.  

http://post-engineering.blogspot.com/
http://www.heavyblogisheavy.com/
http://www.invisibleoranges.com/
www.metal-temple.com/
http://doommetalheaven.wordpress.com/
http://verticalchamberapparatus.blogspot.com/?m=0
http://www.metalfields.net/
http://www.metalreviews.com/
http://www.nocleansinging.com/
http://www.metalstorm.net/home/

These last couple are not metal specific but do some metal.

http://allwhatsrock.com/  
http://theneedledrop.com/
http://pitchfork.com/

[Cursed71]

http://ridewiththedevil.blogspot.com/?m=1

It's a blog, but Jay Hooke is the shit.

[mortlock]

S,F + L
http://www.sixweeksrecords.com/html/sfl.html

[JemDooM]

Doomantia must be a good one, I remember when we first popped up they copied an article from the sleeping shaman about our demo coming out, and for weeks later we had a crazy amount of bandcamp traffic coming from them, there's never been that many views from anywhere else!

[moose23]

http://www.cvltnation.com/

[giantchris]

If no one minds as I run across other blogs and review sites I am going to update them in this thread.

http://www.stonerobixxx.net/
http://ridewiththedevil.blogspot.com/
http://www.stonerhive.blogspot.com/
http://www.the-metalithic.com/

[Chest Rockwell]

could have done with this when Thorun threw up its last CD... I spammed about 20-30 sites, most of whom had review and liked our previous CD... and I think in total we saw 5 online reviews. Damn, did the CD suck that bad???!!!  

[Pissy]

We've had a tough time getting our latest reviewed. I don't have the hard numbers on how many we've sent off, but not many bites.

[lordfinesse]

We've had a tough time getting our latest reviewed. I don't have the hard numbers on how many we've sent off, but not many bites.

I'm not sure how much proper reviews even matter anymore.

[Chest Rockwell]

blogs are handy for spreading the name. we maybe sell a CD every 2 weeks, no quitting the day job yet. However, they're being sent to Texas, Netherlands, Russia, Germany, Poland... there's a guy in Texas wearing one of our tshirts!! insane! 

[eyeprod]

why bother trying to get reviewed? I doubt it really matters these days when no one cares. I'd say try to make a really cool/catchy/interesting video, put it on youtube and try to get it going yourself. You can have a shitty song, but a good video and you'll get more hits than any blog can offer you, I would bet. more hits equals more chance of making a sale, which is what it's about, or am I way off base? I don't promote shit anymore. no one cares and the music business is lameness.

[Chest Rockwell]

worked for Red Fang!